![]() Slate arrive and Cliff attempts to escape, but he is encased by a substance falling from the machine.įred and the Dictabird tell the police of Cliff's actions and all charges against Fred are dropped. The Dictabird escapes from Cliff and lures him back to the quarry, where Stone incapacitates him, having had a change of heart after learning of Cliff's plan to betray her. Barney rescues the children while Fred destroys the machine. Though they hand him the Dictabird, Cliff activates the machine to stall them. Fred and Barney confront Cliff at the quarry, where Cliff has tied Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm to a huge machine. The group finds a note from Cliff saying that he will trade the children for the Dictabird. When the Flintstones and Rubbles return home, they find it burglarized with Dino and Pearl tied up and Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm gone. Fred and Barney reconcile before Wilma, Betty and the Dictabird save them and Wilma tells the workers that Fred was framed by Cliff. When Barney shows up as a sno-cone truck driver, the workers also try to hang him as well when he admits his role in the events. As a disguised Fred enters the workers' cave, he is discovered and the workers try hanging him. to get the Dictabird, the only witness who can clear Fred's name, unaware that Cliff saw them from his office window. Wilma and Betty see this on the news and break into Slate & Co. Fred flees, but a manhunt ensues by both the police and the fired workers. However, having manipulated the events to make it look as if Fred stole the money, Cliff has reported the theft to the police. Wilma and Pebbles also leave for Pearl's house, leaving Fred behind.įred goes to the quarry, discovers Cliff's plan, and tries getting Mr. Later, Barney confronts Fred after seeing worker riots on the news and, after revealing that he switched tests with Fred, moves out with Betty. Cliff eventually tricks Fred into dismissing the other workers, over the objections of his office Dictabird. However, Fred's job and newfound wealth eventually hinder his relationships with Wilma and the Rubbles. Though Fred is unwilling to fire him, he reluctantly accepts, but continues to help Barney support his family, even inviting the Rubbles to live with them so that they can rent out their house. To test Fred’s willingness to follow orders, Cliff asks him to dismiss Barney who, with Fred's test paper, has the lowest score in the company. Fred receives the promotion, complete with executive perks such as a luxurious office and Stone appointed as his secretary. Barney gets the highest score but switches his paper with Fred, whom he knows will fail. Despite his mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople's objections, Fred's wife Wilma remains supportive of his decision to loan the Rubbles money.Ĭliff holds an aptitude test with the worker with the highest mark becoming the company's new vice president. Though initially hard to control because of his super strength, Bamm-Bamm eventually warms up to his new family and befriends Fred’s daughter Pebbles. Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that he and his wife Betty can adopt a little boy named Bamm-Bamm, who can only pronounce his own name. In prehistoric suburban Bedrock, Slate & Co.'s new vice-president Cliff Vandercave and secretary Sharon Stone discuss their plan to swindle the company of its vast fortune, pin the theft on an employee, and flee. The movie was originally acquired by New Line Cinema, but then sold to Universal Pictures.Ī prequel titled The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas was released in 2000. A tie-in promotion with McDonald's was made to promote the film. Audiences and fans praised its faithfulness to its source material, visual effects, costume design, art direction, and performances (particularly Goodman as Fred), but criticized the storyline, tone (which they deemed too mature for family audiences) and casting choices on O'Donnell and Taylor. The film, shot in California, was theatrically released on May 27, 1994, it received mostly negative reviews from critics but earned almost $342 million worldwide against a $46 million budget. The B-52's performed their version of the cartoon's theme song, playing themselves as the BC-52's. The film stars John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, and Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble, along with Kyle MacLachlan as Cliff Vandercave, a villainous executive-vice president of Fred's company, Halle Berry as Sharon Stone, his seductive secretary, and Elizabeth Taylor (in her final theatrical film appearance), as Pearl Slaghoople, Wilma's mother. de Souza based on the 1960–1966 animated television series of the same name. The Flintstones (also known as The Flintstones Movie or The Flintstones: The Live-Action Movie in the working title) is a 1994 American family comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S.
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